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| RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights ScrapbookThese materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Bayard RustinThis transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin. |
9-12 |
Document |
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. |
K-12 |
Interactive |
Concerned White Citizens of Alabama ScrapbookThese materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Decision in the StreetsThis video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64. |
9-12 |
Video |
Diane Nash and the Sit-InsDiane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement. |
6-12 |
Video |
Eileen Kelley WalbertEileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Video |
Fresh TroopsThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how the Nashville student movement trained future Freedom Riders in nonviolence, and why these students were so essential in sustaining the Freedom Rides. |
6-12 |
Video |
James Farmer and the Freedom RidesIn this video interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Freedom Ride organizer James Farmer describes the interracial bus rides through the South that tested desegregation and sparked white resistance. |
6-12 |
Video |
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power." |
9-12 |
Document |
Lola HendricksIn this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Lola Hendricks describes her work behind the scenes to advance the Civil Rights movement. |
6-12 |
Video |
Rev. C. T. VivianIn this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, the Reverend C. T. Vivian remembers his leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement and the risks civil rights activists took in challenging segregation. |
6-12 |
Document |
Robert MosesIn this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign. |
9-12 |
Video |
SCLC's Chicago PlanThis excerpt from SCLC's 1966 plan for a campaign in Chicago documents the conditions of urban poverty. |
6-12 |
Document |
The Student LeaderThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" profiles one of the African American student leaders who employed nonviolent direct action in the early 1960s to challenge illegal racial segregation both on her own college campus and nationally. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Young WitnessThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the response of a young Alabama girl who witnessed an attack on the Freedom Riders. |
6-12 |
Video |
